"Leucovorin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The active metabolite of FOLIC ACID. Leucovorin is used principally as an antidote to FOLIC ACID ANTAGONISTS.
| Descriptor ID |
D002955
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.733.631.400.800.350.450 D08.211.840.300.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Leucovorin- Leucovorin
- Folinic Acid-SF
- Folinic Acid SF
- Leukovorin
- Leukovorum
- Folinic Acid
- Acid, Folinic
Citrovorum Factor- Citrovorum Factor
- Factor, Citrovorum
- Calcium Leucovorin
- Leucovorin, Calcium
- Calcium Folinate
- Folinate, Calcium
N(5)-Formyltetrahydrofolate- N(5)-Formyltetrahydrofolate
- 5-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
- 5 Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
- 5-Formyltetrahydrofolate
- 5 Formyltetrahydrofolate
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leucovorin" by people in Profiles.
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Improved Metastasis- and Disease-Free Survival With Preoperative Sequential Short-Course Radiation Therapy and FOLFOX Chemotherapy for Rectal Cancer Compared With Neoadjuvant Long-Course Chemoradiotherapy: Results of a Matched Pair Analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017 10 01; 99(2):417-426.
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Ocular Involvement Following an Epidemic of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Santa Isabel do Iva?, Brazil. Am J Ophthalmol. 2015 Jun; 159(6):1013-1021.e3.
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Recurrent ocular toxoplasmosis in patients treated with systemic corticosteroids. Retina. 1996; 16(5):383-7.